Abstract: A micro-wire rib structure includes a substrate and a cured layer formed on or over the substrate, the cured layer having a cured-layer surface. A micro-channel is imprinted in the cured layer, the micro-channel having a micro-channel depth, a micro-channel bottom, first and second micro-channel sides, and one or more ribs having opposing rib sides and a rib top defining a rib height less than the micro-channel depth. Each rib is located between the first and second micro-channel sides and extends from the micro-channel bottom toward the cured-layer surface. A cured electrical conductor forming a micro-wire is formed in the micro-channel. The micro-wire extends continuously from the first micro-channel side, over the micro-channel bottom, the rib side(s) and rib top(s) to the second micro-channel side forming a continuous electrical conductor from the first micro-channel side to the second micro-channel side.

Abstract: A filled large-format imprinted structure includes a substrate and a first cured layer located over the substrate. One or more first micro-cavities are imprinted in the first cured layer, each first micro-cavity having a first micro-cavity width less than or equal to 20 microns. A second cured layer is located over the first layer and the one or more first micro-cavities. One or more second micro-cavities are imprinted in the second cured layer, each second micro-cavity having a second micro-cavity width less than or equal to 20 microns. A common first cured material is located in the first micro-cavity and in the second micro-cavity, thereby defining a filled large-format imprinted structure.

Abstract: A filled large-format imprinted structure includes a substrate, a first cured layer located over the substrate, a first micro-cavity imprinted in the first cured layer, and a first cured material of a first color located in the first micro-cavities. A second cured layer is located over the first cured layer and a second micro-cavity is imprinted in the second cured layer. A second cured material of a second color is located in the second micro-cavities. A third cured layer is located over the second cured layer and a third micro-cavity is imprinted in the third cured layer. A third cured material of a third color is located in the third micro-cavities, thereby defining a large-format imprinted structure.

Abstract: A method of making a filled large-format imprinted structure includes providing a substrate, locating a first curable layer over the substrate, imprinting the first curable layer, and curing the first curable layer to form a first cured layer imprinted with a first micro-cavity. A first curable material of a first color is located in the first micro-cavity and cured to form first cured material in the first micro-cavity. A second curable layer is located on the first cured layer and the first cured material, imprinted, and cured to form a second cured layer imprinted with a second micro-cavity. A second curable material of a second color different from the first color is located in the second micro-cavity and cured to form second cured material, thereby defining a large-format imprinted structure.

Abstract: A method of making a filled large-format imprinted structure includes providing a substrate, locating a curable layer over the substrate, imprinting the curable layer, and curing the curable layer to form a cured layer including a layer surface having one or more areas. Each area has a plurality of imprinted micro-cavities, wherein each micro-cavity has a micro-cavity width less than or equal to 20 microns. A rib separates each micro-cavity from an adjacent micro-cavity by a rib width that is less than the micro-cavity width, the rib extending from a bottom of the micro-cavity to the layer surface. A common curable material is located in each micro-cavity and cured to form common cured material in each micro-cavity, thereby defining a filled large-format imprinted structure.

Abstract: A method of making a filled large-format imprinted structure includes providing a substrate, locating a curable layer over the substrate, imprinting the curable layer, and curing the curable layer to form a cured layer including a layer surface and one or more imprinted micro-cavities. Each micro-cavity has a micro-cavity depth and a micro-cavity width and one or more ribs extending from the bottom of the micro-cavity toward the top of the micro-cavity. Each rib has a rib width that is less than one half of the micro-cavity width, a rib height that is less than the micro-cavity depth, and each rib separates the micro-cavity into portions, each portion having a portion width less than or equal to 20 microns. A curable material is located in each micro-cavity and cured to form cured material located in each micro-cavity, thereby defining a filled large-format imprinted structure.

Abstract: A filled large-format imprinted structure includes a cured layer including a cured layer surface having one or more areas and a plurality of micro-cavities imprinted in each area, each of the micro-cavities having a micro-cavity width less than or equal to 20 microns. A rib separates each micro-cavity from an adjacent micro-cavity by a rib width that is less than the micro-cavity width, the rib extending from a bottom of the micro-cavity to the cured layer surface. A common cured material is located in each micro-cavity, thereby defining a filled large-format imprinted structure.

Abstract: A method of making a filled large-format imprinted structure includes providing a substrate, locating a first curable layer over the substrate, imprinting the first curable layer, and curing the first curable layer to form a first cured layer imprinted with a first micro-cavity having a first micro-cavity width less than or equal to 20 microns. A curable material is located in the first micro-cavity and cured to form cured material in the first micro-cavity. A second curable layer is located on the first cured layer and the first cured material, imprinted and cured to form a second cured layer imprinted with a second micro-cavity having a second micro-cavity width less than or equal to 20 microns. The curable material is located in the second micro-cavity and cured to form cured material in the second micro-cavity, thereby forming a large-format imprinted structure.

Abstract: A filled large-format imprinted structure includes a cured layer including a cured layer surface and one or more micro-cavities imprinted in the cured layer, each micro-cavity having a micro-cavity width and a micro-cavity depth. One or more ribs are imprinted in each micro-cavity and extend from the bottom of the micro-cavity toward the top of the micro-cavity, each rib having a rib width that is less than one half of the micro-cavity width, and a rib height that is less than the micro-cavity depth. Each rib separates the micro-cavity into portions, each portion having a portion width less than or equal to 20 microns. A cured material is located in each portion of the micro-cavity and extends over the top of the rib, thereby defining a filled large-format imprinted structure.

Abstract: A method of making an imprinted micro-wire structure includes providing a substrate having an edge area and a central area separate from the edge area and providing first, second, and third different stamps. A curable bottom, connecting layer, and top layer are formed on the substrate. A bottom-layer micro-channel is imprinted in the bottom layer in the central area and the edge area, a connecting-layer micro-channel is imprinted in the connecting layer in the edge area over the bottom-layer micro-channel, an edge micro-channel is imprinted in the top layer in the edge area over the connecting-layer micro-channel, and top-layer micro-channels are imprinted in the top layer over the central area. Micro-wires are formed in each micro-channel. The bottom-layer micro-wire in the central area is electrically connected to the edge micro-wire in the edge area and is electrically isolated from the top-layer micro-wire.

Abstract: A method of using a colored biocidal multi-layer structure includes locating the colored biocidal multi-layer structure on a surface, observing the colored biocidal multi-layer structure over time, and observing a change in the color in at least a portion of the colored biocidal multi-layer structure, indicating that the colored biocidal multi-layer structure is less effective. The colored biocidal multi-layer structure includes a first layer of a first color, and a biocidal second layer on or over the first layer, the biocidal second layer of a second color different from the first color.

Abstract: A method of operating an imprinted electronic sensor to sense an environmental factor includes providing spatially separated micro-channels in a cured layer on a substrate. A multi-layer micro-wire is formed in each micro-channel. Each multi-layer micro-wire includes at least a conductive layer and a reactive layer exposed to the environmental factor. The conductive layer is a cured electrical conductor located only within the micro-channel and at least a portion of the reactive layer responds to the environmental factor. A controller is provided for electrically controlling first and second groups of multi-layer micro-wires, each first and second group including one or more multi-layer micro-wires. The reactive layer is exposed to the environment. The controller measures the electrical response of the first and second groups of multi-layer micro-wires.

Abstract: A method of making an imprinted electronic sensor structure on a substrate for sensing an environmental factor includes coating, imprinting, and curing a curable layer on the substrate to form a plurality of spatially separated micro-channels extending from the layer surface into the cured layer. First and second layers are located in each micro-channel to form a multi-layer micro-wire. Either the first layer is a cured electrical conductor forming a conductive layer located only within the micro-channel and the second layer is a reactive layer or the first layer is a reactive layer and the second layer is a cured electrical conductor forming a conductive layer located only within the micro-channel. The reactive layer is exposed to the environmental factor and at least a portion of the reactive layer responds to the environmental factor.

Abstract: An imprinted electronic sensor structure on a substrate for sensing an environmental factor includes a cured layer having a layer surface located on the substrate. Spatially separated micro-channels extend from the layer surface into the cured layer. A multi-layer micro-wire is formed in each micro-channel. Each multi-layer micro-wire includes at least a conductive layer and a reactive layer. The reactive layer is exposed to the environmental factor. The conductive layer is a cured electrical conductor located only within the micro-channel and at least a portion of the reactive layer responds to the environmental factor.

Abstract: A display device includes a display having an array of pixels formed on a display layer, the pixels arranged into rows and columns. Two or more electrodes are located over the display layer on an electrode layer different from the display layer and extend across at least a portion of the array of pixels. Each electrode extends exclusively over all of the pixels in a row or column.

Abstract: A transparent capacitor apparatus includes a first transparent substrate including a first patterned conductive layer having a first conductive material located over the first transparent substrate; a dielectric layer located over the first patterned conductive layer; a second patterned conductive layer including a second conductive material located over the dielectric layer, wherein the second pattern is different from the first pattern; and a second transparent substrate located over the second patterned conductive layer. Portions of the first conductive material of the first patterned conductive layer overlap portions of the second conductive material of the second patterned conductive layer. The overlapping portions of the first and second conductive materials form matching patterned electrical conductor(s) having spatially matching conducting and non-conductive areas, the non-conductive areas of the first and second patterned conductive layers having encapsulated coalesced conductive material structures.

Abstract: Electrically-conductive articles are prepared to have electrically-conductive silver metal electrode grids and electrically-conductive silver connector wire patterns (BUS lines) on one or both supporting sides of a transparent substrate. The electrically-conductive silver connector wire patterns are designed with one silver main wire that comprises two or more adjacent silver micro-wires in bundled patterns. These bundled patterns and silver micro-wires are designed with specific dimensions and configurations to provide optimal fidelity (or correspondence) to the mask image used to provide such images in a silver halide emulsion layer. The electrically-conductive articles are provided by imagewise exposure, development, and fixing of corresponding silver halide-containing conductive film element precursors containing photosensitive silver halide emulsion layers. The electrically-conductive articles can be used as parts of various electronic devices including touch screen devices.

Abstract: An imprinted micro-structure includes a substrate having an edge area and a central area separate from the edge area. A cured bottom-layer, connecting layer, and top layer are formed over the substrate, each with a corresponding imprinted micro-channel having a cured micro-wire. The bottom micro-wire is in the central area and the edge area. The connecting-layer micro-wire contacts at least a portion of the bottom-layer micro-wire in the edge area. A cured edge micro-wire in the top layer contacts at least a portion of the connecting-layer micro-wire in the edge area. A top-layer micro-wire is located in a top-layer micro-channel and is separate from the edge micro-wire and bottom micro-wire. The bottom-layer micro-wire in the central area is electrically connected to the edge micro-wire in the edge area and is electrically isolated from the top-layer micro-wire.

Abstract: A micro-wire electrode structure includes a surface having a surface area and an arrangement of micro-wires formed relative to the surface in the surface area. The micro-wires provide a first spatial electrode resolution and second micro-wire electrodes providing a second spatial electrode resolution greater than the first spatial electrode resolution. One or more first electrodes each include two or more electrically connected micro-wires in the surface area providing the first spatial electrode resolution. One or more second electrodes each include one or more electrically connected micro-wires in the surface area providing the second spatial electrode resolution greater than the first spatial electrode resolution. The second electrodes have a smaller electrode area and a smaller micro-wire area than the first electrodes in the surface area and the first and second electrode areas are visually uniform.

Abstract: A method of operating a micro-wire electrode structure includes using a controller to receive an electrical signal from one or more first electrodes. The first electrodes have visually uniform micro-wires arranged on a surface in a surface area. Each first electrode includes two or more electrically connected micro-wires in the surface area. The controller receives an electrical signal from one or more second electrodes. The second electrodes have visually uniform micro-wires arranged on the surface in the surface area. Each second electrode includes one or more electrically connected micro-wires in the surface area. The second electrodes have a smaller electrode area and a smaller micro-wire area than the first electrodes in the surface area and the first and second electrode areas are visually uniform. A processor detects a low-spatial-resolution signal from the first electrode(s) and detecting a high-spatial-resolution signal from the second electrode(s).